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Master Mentoring: Thinking About Learning: Investigating Metacognition

21 June 2024
ONLINE via Zoom Webinar

Thinking about learning: Investigating metacognition

We listened! Due to feedback from the sector, this program will now commence in 2024 (aligning with the educational calendar year)

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Overview

Would you like to inspire smart thinking in your learners and utilise a variety of thinking tools to make your classes more interesting and productive?

We will investigate strategies to chunk learning material into sections so that the learning is more effective, and the cognitive load is reasonable.

In addition, we will use effective note-taking approaches to empower your learners: simply saying ‘take notes’, just does not cut it !

As a community, we will explore the awesome possibilities of mind mapping to organise, prioritise and remember information. This will change the way you teach and the way your learners learn!

We will extend our experience with thinking tools by investigating the world-renowned, 6 Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. This will provide amazing possibilities for many aspects of teaching and learning.

We will also look at a number of applicable and interesting graphic organisers – tools that can improve the way we organise learning and in fact our experience as educators.

As part of each of our sessions together we will plan forward, looking at possible challenges and ways that we might overcome them using good practice. Bring your challenges along to the session and we will think of possibilities together.

We will complete our session with an innovative opportunity for Reflective Practice that you can use with your learners and in conclusion answer any burning questions you may have!

Key topics covered in this webinar 

  • Chunking the learning  into bite-sized pieces
  • Mindmapping – a great tool to organise thinking
  • De Bono  thinking hats – an amazing thinking prompt
  • Graphic organisers to advance learning: Compare & contrast matrix, and an organisational Timeline 
  • Organising your note taking 
  • Reflective Practice: Zoom / Teams Cascade
  • Planning forward for tricky situations
  •  Questions about your practice
NB. Can't make the session? We send out all electronic resources to registrants within 48 hours of the session's closure. All Velg Training webinars are scheduled in AEST (QLD time) - please check your time zone before logging onto the online training session.


Date & Time

Friday 21st June 2024
11:00am - 12.30pm (AEST: QLD)

Other timezones:
11:00am - 12.30pm (AEST: NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS)
10:30am - 12:00pm (ACST: SA)
10:30am - 12:00pm (ACST: NT)
9:00am - 10:30am (AWST: WA)

Who should attend

This program supports new VET educators in an array of educational environments.  

  • Trainers/Assessors who have been educating for less than 2 years
  • Trainers working under supervision arrangements
  • School teachers who deliver VET programs or are soon to deliver VET
  • Recent graduates of the TAE40116 or TAE40122
  • New TAFE trainers/assessors

What to expect

Presented by Kay Schlesinger, you will be provided with the following resources after the event:

  • PowerPoint (in PDF format)
  • Recording of the webinar (three months access)
  • Additional electronic resource 
  • Electronic Statement of Attendance

Presenters

Kay Schlesinger

Kay Schlesinger has worked in numerous educational sectors, including a position as a Deputy Principal where she took responsibility for the professional Development of educators and supported new leaders in the sector. In the last 20 years Kay has worked in VET, Higher Education and as an Educational Consultant.

Kay has received awards for Teaching and Adult learning in the VET sector. She has continually demonstrated innovative approaches to teaching a diverse range of students. This was exemplified in 2018 when she presented at the AVETRA conference around Interactive Teaching and Learning Strategies.

In 2020 Kay was awarded an International Specialised Skills Institute fellowship by the Department of Education and Training for her work with new teachers. Kay is currently mentoring organisations around empowering new educators for organisational improvement.

Kay has also designed programs around Industry mentoring and was one of the keynote speakers at the 2021 VDC Annual Conference where she addressed: 10 Ways to Empower New Teachers for Success. A pathway for organisational success. Kay has also been a speaker at TAFE Director’s Australia and spoke at TAFE Queensland/ Holmesglen annual conferences. Kay is currently working with The Department of Education in a consulting role.

Developing the capability of educators has been Kay’s passion for many years. She is focussed on partnering with educators to create interesting, interactive learning experiences.

Opportunities to interact

  • Use a microphone to speak with trainer/attendees (Not available in all Webinars)
  • Raise your 'virtual hand' to engage in discussion
  • Share your thoughts via online chat window
  • Answer online polls that provide instant group feedback

NB. If you would like to send chat questions to the presenter, Kay Schlesinger, before the session, please email webinar@velgtraining.com.

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